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Por Dr. Martín Federico Echavarría

Universidade de Abat Oliba – CEU, Barcelona (Espanha)

ABSTRACT: In this paper we propose the Thomistic interpretation of psychic disease. Commenting book VII of Aristotle’s Nicomaquean Ethics, Aquinas studies the case of those who feel contranatural pleasures. The causes may be corporal (a bad constitution, a disease) or behavioural. These are called by St. Thomas, animal or psychic diseases, which are disorders of the sensitive part of the human being opposed not only to recta ratio, such as human vices, but also to the natural tendencies of the animal appetite; for this reason they are called beastly or pathological vices. Under this category, Aquinas mentions, for instance, sexual perversions, sadism, some upheavals of the nourishing behaviour and phobias. These trends can be re-educated, and thus it is spoken about them, in an analogical way, of continence and incontinence.